Tin Pan Alley (1940)

Directed by

Walter Lang

Genre

drama film, musical film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two sister vaudeville singers team up with two songwriters in the years before World War I. They navigate romance and the music business.

livelynostalgicupbeatwhimsicalromanticlightheartedold-fashioned

What happens

Tin Pan Alley is a 1940 musical film directed by Walter Lang and starring Alice Faye and Betty Grable (their only film together) as vaudeville singers/sisters and John Payne and Jack Oakie as songwriters in the years before World War I. Alfred Newman received the 1940 Academy Award for Best Musical Score for his work on the film, the second of his nine Oscars. The film was also nominated for American Film Institute's 2006 list of the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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